Favourite TV-series

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Blue Velvet said:
Addicted to the web by watching Lois & Clark? How did that come about?
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When the University gave us automatic email addresses, a group of us all decided to join majordomo mailing lists so that we looked like we had some mail. Back then, the only things to sign up to were pretty much US TV shows and the only one I watched was Lois & Clark on an irregular basis.

The list I ended up on was very lively and very friendly and had a real sense of community outwith the TV show. When I left Uni, I had made so many good friends that I bought a modem so I could keep in touch with them. Otherwise, I would likely have not bothered until the web became more mainstream. I still have good friends in the UK and US who I holiday with and who I originally met through that list 10 years ago, tho I don't think any of us have watched a rerun of L&C in as many years!
 
I love many TV shows, perhaps it is reason for my 70 lbs extra weight.

Anyway,

for Sci-Fi, it would have to be ranked,
Red Dwarf,
Star Trek: TNG
Battlestar Galactica

For Cartoons,
Transformers
Thundercats
He-Man: Master of the Universe

For Live Action,
Knight Rider
CSI: Las Vegas
Alias

For Reality TV,
Survivor
The Amazing Race
 
Applespider said:
...The list I ended up on was very lively and very friendly and had a real sense of community outwith the TV show...
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Know exactly what you mean.

Here, I must finally confess my shameful and hoggish addiction to the first two series of 'Big Brother' :eek: :eek: and the consequent chat-room malarkey that followed.

I'm a well woman now... relatively speaking. :)
 
all-time: Ab Fab

currently: desperate housewives or boston legal.
contenders: aqua teen hunger force, sea lab 2021, american gothic, keeping up appearances, any of the CSI/L&O shows that I haven't seen a dozen times already... Always playing on one of our TVs, my partner has all the damn seasons on DVD...
 
No TV, so my experience of the last couple of decades is minimal. But I rented some DVDs of series at the local video store:

The Office. WTF is that, turn it off. Sorry, it must exist at an entirely different plane when watched weekly with commercial interruptions.

Corner Gas. This is great, I go around humming the theme song. Does anybody outside Canada get this series, or get this humor?

Six Feet Under. OK here's my problem. The video store doesn't have Disk 3 of Year 1 and I'm detemined to watch it sequentially... I'm in serious withdrawl, I'm starting to really CARE what happens to these people. Gheeze. Can someone recommend a therapist?

Old faves:
Moonlighting, sometimes great sometimes annoying as heck. Smirk some more for the camera, Bruce.
M*A*S*H, yup
This Old House with Bob Vilas
St. Elsewhere for a period (weird to see Dr. Victor Erlich as the first generation love interest in Six Feet Under though)
Hill St. Blues
The British series that Three's Company was ripped off from
Fawlty Towers
Night Court
Remington Steele :eek:

Then there are the shows I watched just for the female actors (this was in my impressionable youth of course) Cybill Shepherd, Lindsay Wagner, Heather Locklear (Dallas era), Suzanne Pleshette (Bob Newhart), Marcia Strassman (Welcome Back Kotter -- these last two irresistably smart and sarcastic), Ellen Foley on Night Court's first season (and who also sang the duet with Meatloaf on Paradise by the Dashboard Light), and ... I blush to admit ... Lauren Tewes from the Love Boat :eek: and Jean Bruce Scott, who showed up on St. Elsewhere (Bobbi Sloan, love interest of Erlich - gee, he keeps popping up) and on Magnum PI ... this has something to do with a minor period of infatuation with blonde, wedge-stye hairdos.

Now, about that therapist...
 
Production values of shows like Lost, Alias, CSI and others seem to be much higher than shows of in the past decades, like Hawaii 5-0, Magnum PI, Quincy ME.

20 years from now, would we think of current TV shows as being really bad?
 
Blue Velvet said:
Flashback :eek:

Barney Miller, All In The Family, Mary Hart -- Mary Hart, and of course... Soap!

Brilliant!
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Ooh Ooh - I remember! Never really warmed up to either Mary Hartmann or Fernwood2Nite. Loved Barney though (even learned the theme song on bass guitar). Favorite line of the whole series: detective buys bunch of ice cream for a party but leaves it in the trunk of the car on a hot day: "It smells like... like... BABIES in there!"

Billy Crystal in Soap was an absolute revelation -- until he switched into the old man routine and the series went downhill for me from there. I can still sing the "Mr. Peppy Flake and Rodney Raisin" song from the episode with the two guys in the big bowl of milk (for anyone under 25 years old... you had to be there).

Here's another therapist question: How come I can't remember my own anniversary but I can do 20+ year old TV songs note for note?

Thanks
Trevor
CanadaRAM.com
 
gMac said:
Deadwood! New season premieres tonight!
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Yah! I'm in love with Ian McShane.

Some over favorites:

Six Feet Under
The Wire
(yes, there is an HBO pattern here)

Oldies:

Roseanne
Wings
 
Don't exactly have an absolute scale for TV shows, as they mostly differ.
Of the current ones Lost and Battlestar Galactica make TV watch-able.
Sadly I don't have the opportunity to watch Scrubs this season, but hope that they are still going strong.
 
I agree with some of the shows mentioned.

A TV Series that really sticks out in my mind though: "The Walton's."
 
when the waltons was out, i was really young so i didn't catch the depth of that show...i know it's more than about john boy saying good night to everybody ;)

i was also too young to get mash but now when i see a re-run i am amazed at how much was said in this series
 
Frasier and Becker are TV shows that grow on you over time. Although my favorites include Perfect Strangers and Three's Company.
 
Picket Fences
The Practice
Ally McBeal (S1 and 2)

Yes, I am a David E Kelley Fan except for his movies which bombed big time.

Now:
Scrubs
Arrested Development
Will & Grace
CSI
 
Diatribe said:
I'd say 24. Talk about addicting... I saw two seasons within 4 days... :eek:
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That would definately be my current favourite

But for all time favourite I will have to go with Seinfeld :rolleyes:
 
killuminati said:
That would definately be my current favourite

But for all time favourite I will have to go with Seinfeld :rolleyes:
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24 is also my current favorite

but i think they can't do too much more this season...i can't imagine where they could take it next...i am afraid they may be running out of ideas

how else could the bad guys mess things up?

they could actually physically attack ctu, michelle can come back into the mix, and they can have jack have some sort of breakdown i guess
 
Don't watch too many TV programs these days, but I try to tune in for Smallville and Alias every Wednesday. I always enjoy Scrubs when I catch it. Working my way through the Arrested Development Season One DVD set, which is just mad stuff.
All time favorites would have to include Soap, Taxi, Seinfeld, Northern Exposure, Cheers, Seinfeld, Monthy Pythton, and Twin Peaks.

Oh, and Gilligan's Island. BIG crush on Mary Ann when I was a wee lad of 12.
 
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